William F. "Rick" Cronk (born October 4, 1942) is an American businessman who was co-owner and president of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.
After graduating from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1965, Cronk started his career with Eastman Dillon & Co.
In 1972 he started a restaurant chain called "Vintage House" in the same vein as theme eatery pioneer Victoria Station.
The chain struggled and in 1977 Cronk and T. Gary Rogers purchased Dreyer's, then a popular ice cream company operating exclusively in the San Francisco Bay Area.
[4] Cronk is a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, the organization's governing body.